Following the publication of its first White Paper on Artificial Intelligence, Inria unveils a second document, this time on autonomous and connected vehicles, in which it identifies and highlights all the issues surrounding the major advances and innovations in this field. What are the technological and scientific challenges, the economic, social and environmental issues, and the legal and ethical implications? This White Paper is a reference text that evaluates, questions and looks ahead.

A European consortium led by Inria and funded by the EU ICT H2020 program, TeamPlay aims at developing new techniques that will allow execution time, energy, security and other important non-functional properties of parallel software to be treated as first-class citizens. As Project Coordinator Olivier Zendra points out, this research is expected to have a significant impact on various sectors of the industry. Results will be evaluated through use cases from various domains such as computer vision, cybersecurity, satellites and drones.

The start-up Hikob, created in 2011 at Inria, has been bought by TagMaster, the leading manufacturer of advanced RFID products and traffic sensors and of ANPR cameras for vehicle identification in traffic and rail solutions.

A security research team based at Inria center, in Rennes, Brittany, France, Tamis recently partnered with American networking hardware giant Cisco Systems in a move meant to design an innovative method for uncovering malware at code execution.

As a major player in Europe's research ecosystem, Inria considered important to clarify its expectations with regard to FP9, the future framework programme to succeed H2020. The institute has therefore forwarded its proposals to the European Commission "to provide food for thought during the active phase of drawing up the next framework programme for research and innovation
".

The CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) and Inria have awarded the 2017 "privacy protection" Prize to a European research team. During the 11th international conference Computers Privacy and Data Protection
(CPDP) to Seda GÜRSES, Carmela TRONCOSO and Claudia DIAZ for their article « Engineering privacy by design reloaded
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The CCSD (Centre for Direct Scientific Communication) and Software Heritage have announced their collaboration beginning early 2018: it will enable the data repository in HAL to be extended to software and, as a result, contribute to the recognition of the work of research software developers.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

Facebook is investing an additional 10 million Euros and doubling the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team in order to accelerate research on artificial intelligence in France. As a result, Facebook's European hub is strengthening its partnership with Inria.

InriaSoft aims for the durable development of large-scale software programs by bringing together their user communities within consortia that will finance a team of engineers tasked with their maintenance and evolution. The InriaSoft headquarters are based in Rennes, as Claude Labit, director, and David Margery, technical director of this national action backed by the Fondation Inria, explain.

Parallel algorithms and load sharing

Leader : Brigitte Plateau

Research center(s) :
CRI Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes

Field : Numerical systems

Theme : Grids and high-performance computing

Team presentation

APACHE is a parallel processing research project, hosted in the ID
(Informatics and Distribution) laboratory of the Grenoble Institute for
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (IMAG), France. It is sponsored
by CNRS, INPG, INRIA and UJF.

This project investigates a new approach to program parallel machines
for compute-intensive applications. Our goal is to find a good trade-off
between performance and portability, so that programs with various
profiles can be executed efficiently on parallel machines with different
resources and facilities.

The programming environment Athapascan is an answer to these issues:
efficiency and portability. A multithreaded communication runtime
system, Athapascan-0, has been designed and has proven to be adequate
and efficient. A programming library prototype, Athapascan-1, is
available. It is based on a multi-tasking programming model with data
consistency and grants an automatic load balancing. Test applications
are being developped on Athapascan: molecular dynamics, quantum
chemistry, computer algebra, domain decomposition and discrete event
simulation. Finally, a tracing tool allows debbuging, performance
evaluation and visualization of Athapascan and its applications.